Torsten CurdtOct 20
Design Thinking! Comic
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to repost this old strip
Oct 20 at 10:20amWeb
Show threadPeterOct 20

@designthinkingcomic

Your timing is impeccable.

I just finished muttering to my long-suffering wife, "Remember when we designed the Internet to be distributed, so that this sort of thing wouldn't happen?"

It really is bloody frustrating to this ancient network engineer (pre-Internet).

Show threadlxskllrOct 20

@PeterLG @designthinkingcomic

Heh... I made a similar comment today to someone bitching about reddit being down. I suggested lemmy. The solution to a lot of problems is *right there*, but nobody's willing to sacrifice anything to make the future better.

Mastodon was probably first out of the gate for twitter refugees. Everyone said 'Fuck that shit. Gimme some more of that centralized corporate platform!'

It amazes me we progressed beyond fire...

Show threadjackOct 21
@PeterLG @designthinkingcomic I think that's a myth - the internet wasn't designed to be distributed, it was designed to connect a bunch of computers that were already distributed
Show threadPeterOct 21

@jackeric

Sorry, but I was there. I worked with the original X.25 networks in Australia for what was then Telecom Australia, working with government entities,universities, and IT companies like IBM.

The Internet was never supposed to be concentrated, especially in the hands of commercial entities whose only aim is profit.

The internet isn't just connections between computers.

@designthinkingcomic

Show threadDesign Thinking! ComicOct 21
@PeterLG @jackeric God bless Mastodon and all who sail in her...
Show threadjackOct 21
@PeterLG @designthinkingcomic sorry, yeah, I misspoke(?) - I meant it was designed as a distributed system to connect a bunch of distributed computers - but it's a myth it was designed as a distributed system for the sake of resilience to nuclear strikes or other unplanned outages, right
Show threadPeterOct 21

@jackeric

Ah, gotcha. Agreed.

It was up there in the military establishment's thinking though. Their concern was systems of command and control, and they knew from the get-go that interconnection systems were vulnerable. Their focus was on hardening their computers as separated installations.

@designthinkingcomic

Show threadTacitus 🇮🇪  Oct 20

@designthinkingcomic

Only half?

Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 20

@designthinkingcomic #aws, #Cloudflare, #Akamai, etc. are all concentrators and should be avoided at all cost...

#AwfulWebServices #ClownFlare #CDN #centralization #Enshittification

Show threadHarry KaradimasOct 20
@designthinkingcomic xkcd level !
Great.
Show thread Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑Oct 20
@designthinkingcomic Which option generates profit? Hmm...
Show threadZekovski 🧣Oct 20
@designthinkingcomic
Yay ! Alt text !
Thank you. 🫶
Show threadF4GRX SébastienOct 21
@Zekovski @designthinkingcomic and it looks like it's human produced alt text too! Nice!
Show threadDesign Thinking! ComicOct 21
@f4grx @Zekovski Did the typo give it away? ;-)
Show threadF4GRX SébastienOct 21
@designthinkingcomic @Zekovski more the "boring authority figure" that adds relevant context and judgement, while an ai would have only emitted average generalities.
Show threadMartin RuskovOct 20
@designthinkingcomic the thing is that it is not even cost-saving. It's excessive costs. For what? Simplicity? Not really. More like obscurity.
https://medium.com/@accounts_73078/goodbye-aws-how-we-kept-iso-27001-slashed-costs-by-90-914ccb4b89fc
Goodbye AWS: How We Kept ISO 27001, Slashed Costs by 90%

The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS

Medium
Show threadAlbert CardonaOct 21

@mapto @designthinkingcomic

Said on June 21st, 2025:

"Was tying our company’s future to a single US-based provider a responsible choice?"

The follow up question is, why aren't all other European companies asking this question.

Show threadInterpipes 💙Oct 21
@mapto as an independent ISP we have been banging this drum relentlessly since “cloud” became a thing. I don’t even really care if people don’t host with us - we don’t have 27001 yet - just fgs don’t pay way more for way less elsewhere just because it’s “easy”
Show threadSteven SandovalOct 20
@designthinkingcomic In completely unrelated news, the AI scraper bot spam on my web server has diminished significantly for no reason.
Show threaddaisE 🌈Oct 21
@designthinkingcomic the irony is, that the first argument was already a marketing trick to get money to finance it's expansion. The Californian Hippies just wanted to connect their universities but needed hardware for it. And they still are connected and their technique like e-mail still works. As does the fediverse. So it's all about the direction of the money/attention. The people can give it to their lokal grass root projects based on matrix, jitsi, mastodon, ... or to the centralized tech giants like Zoom...
Show threadSérgio LimaOct 22
@designthinkingcomic #Fediverse and #Blockchains follow the same path...
Show threadRaphaël 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Nov 18
@designthinkingcomic And again, and again and again